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In the interest of informing those who are not on the Facebook group, the Facebook page (new!), or various other social media outlets, here's an official update.

Mackenzie VanBeest and Meagan Kane are the new co-coordinators for AboutSF. Twice the brains--twice the time--twice the arms! Also, twice the ability to think of cool new directions for AboutSF while still pursuing previous projects and goals.

In the "this is why we can't have nice things" department, apparently there are scammers making use of our Speculative Speakers database to send phishing email scams to the generous speakers who have volunteered to be listed.

Among other notables who have received these emails include our own Chris McKitterick and John Scalzi. If you have been targeted by these scams, please know that you have our sincerest apologies and we are discussing ways to keep this from happening again.

It's been a long, busy summer, but now we're starting to settle back into the school year. Our first offering of this semester will be another two-part interview conducted by Film & Media Studies professor John Tibbetts, this time with Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell-Award winning author, Kim Stanley Robinson.

Film & Media Studies professor John Tibbetts donated this and many other interviews to the CSSF. This conversation with Bloch took place at the fifteenth World Fantasy Convention in 1990, which celebrated H.P. Lovecraft. Bloch was a member of the Lovecraft Circle, and was mentored by him.

It's time to start thinking about how you're going to totally geek out this summer.

Thursday, May 24 (that's tonight!) there's a book signing at Prospero's Books in Kansas City, with Eric Reynolds, M.C. Chambers, our own Chris McKitterick, and many other authors. Check out the Facebook event.

This is yet another excellent interview that Film & Media Studies professor John Tibbetts donated to the CSSF. This conversation with T.E.D. Klein is a look at someone who helped shape the horror genre in the 1980s and a man who struggles with something common to every writer I know, writer's block.

This episode is a recorded interview Film & Media Studies associate professor John Tibbetts conducted with L. Sprague De Camp. The interview covers how De Camp got started as a professional writer and the process of creating many of his works.